MANGLORE HOUSE

•   Pitched clay roofs to protect from the

monsoon rains
•   Covered exterior verandas protect from
the scorching sun and provide a cooling spot
during rainy season
•   Use of locally sourced laterite stone blocks
are the most suitable material as it is strong,
hard and highly resistant to moisture.
•  Wood and bamboo lattices provide
additional shade and screening from the hot
sun
•   Lime plaster finish is again locally sourced
and was abundant

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• GUTTU HOUSE
•  Guthu mane are traditional homes of bunt community of coastal
Karnataka.
• has steeply pitched roof, combining single & double storeyed blocks Khamb-Wooden pillars in
atraditional Bunt house
around a courtyard
• principal building material is wood.
• The façade is usually symmetrical around a central projection
EG1:BADILA GUTHU HOUSE AT KANNUR
• This house was built using Muli Straw that was devastated in a fire
incident in the year 1904.
• The Badila Guthu house had a private judiciary system where justice
was given to people living in the village
• It has 21 rooms.
• It also has the Chaavadi(meeting space) of Dhoomavathi Daiva with
artistic pillars with wood carvings on them.
• EG:2 PILIKULA NISARGA DHAMA

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HISTORIC MASJIDS OF MANGLORE
ZEENATH BAKSH MASJID, BUNDER
The prayer hall is on a plinth tile roof has ’Basel
with an open colonnade Mission’ Tiles ,kin’s
running around the building tombs
under heavy overhanging
eaves with carvings
The front portion with a prayer
hall on two levels
The water tank in the center of
the premises has granite steps
and provides water for the
ablutions or ’Wuzu’ prescribed
before ’namaz
the hand carved wood
work (characteristically
local). Tipu added
beautifully carved bulky
rosewood pillars and also
a carved ceiling, the
huge carved works are
majestic.
four minarets and a
typical dome
MANGALOREAN CATHOLIC STYLE
• The Mangalorean
• The architecture of Mangalorean Catholic style of
Catholics has strong constructing
Mangalorean, Italian, and churches was
Portuguese influences.
influenced by the
• Their traditional houses have - Italian and
spacious porticos, Portuguese style.
• Mangalorean
red cement or terracotta floors,
Catholics learnt the
topped with Mangalore tiles technique of
• The tall windows, pointed roofs, preparing Mangalo
and verandahs are some of re tiles
the Portuguese influence in
catholic house